Re: A Problem

["Thomas Droege" <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

Looks like it was a BIOS problem.  So I regret to inform all that wrote
asking to take the "junk" Shuttles off my hands that they are out of luck.

I did a cold start this morning and everything worked.  Peter's
explaination below makes sense to me.  No doubt, whatever was in the BIOS
was not run in all modes.  

Tom Droege


> [Original Message]
> From: Peter Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>
> To: <tdroege2@earthlink.net>
> Cc: tass <tass@listserv.wwa.com>
> Date: 2/20/2004 6:40:24 AM
> Subject: Re: A Problem
>
> Thomas Droege wrote:
> > Well, I played with the BIOS.  The most recent thing that I did was to
set
> > UART2 from normal to the other possible setting.
> > 
> > Then it worked.  Then I tried setting back to the old value.  It
worked. 
> > Now I cannot find a mode where it does not work.
> > Last I set it to all the default values and it worked.  
> > 
> > Sigh!
> > 
> > There seem to be two possibilities:
> > 
> > 1)  It is a warm up problem.  The card works only after it has run a
while
> > and has warmed up.  This is definitely possible. 
> > 
> > 2)  It is a BIOS initilization problem.  The BIOS starts out in some
funny
> > state.  Changing anything resets it so that the ISA bus works. 
>
> This is a possibility, although the only time I've seen it occur is 
> after upgrading the BIOS. The new version changes the format stored in 
> NVRAM and strange things happen until you reset it.
>
> What could have happened was that during manufacture the NVRAM was 
> configured for an earlier BIOS version to the one actually loaded. Most 
> likely if the manufacturer used a tool to load the setup rather than the 
> BIOS itself.
>
> Peter
>